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Paper · 2504.14396 · 2025

SphereDiff: Tuning-free 360{\deg} Static and Dynamic Panorama Generation via Spherical Latent Representation

Jaegul Choo, Taewoong Kang, Sungwon Hwang, Minho Park, Jooyeol Yun

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Abstract

The increasing demand for AR/VR applications has highlighted the need for high-quality content, such as 360{\deg} live wallpapers. However, generating high-quality 360{\deg} panoramic contents remains a challenging task due to the severe distortions introduced by equirectangular projection (ERP). Existing approaches either fine-tune pretrained diffusion models on limited ERP datasets or adopt tuning-free methods that still rely on ERP latent representations, often resulting in distracting distortions near the poles. In this paper, we introduce SphereDiff, a novel approach for synthesizing 360{\deg} static and live wallpaper with state-of-the-art diffusion models without additional tuning. We define a spherical latent representation that ensures consistent quality across all perspectives, including near the poles. Then, we extend MultiDiffusion to spherical latent representation and propose a dynamic spherical latent sampling method to enable direct use of pretrained diffusion models. Moreover, we introduce distortion-aware weighted averaging to further improve the generation quality. Our method outperforms existing approaches in generating 360{\deg} static and live wallpaper, making it a robust solution for immersive AR/VR applications. The code is available here. https://github.com/pmh9960/SphereDiff

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